On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:58:51 -0400, Badger_South <
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wrote:
>>> Somebody (I think on another newsfroup) suggested taking them
>>> badger-hunting; but I don't know anybody who would eat a badger.
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>>
>>I think the idea is that a badger would probably eat the DOGS.
Well, this is my last vet story. I worked at a veterinary clinic
outside of Ft. Hood, Texas in my last year of high school. Some
soldier back from Germany brought in a Schwartz Wald dachshund to
board. This sucker was the size of a basset hound and solid muscle.
I had to remove the bed platform made of 1x4s to clean the runs
everyday. As I was leaving this dogs run, bedboard in hand, I heard a
growl from behind. I turned just in time to see this dachshund launch
himself straight at my chest. I hit him in mid-air with the bedboard,
breaking it over his head and knocking him to the end of the run.
Looked dead to me.
Figuring I had killed him, I went and got the vet. By the time we got
back to the runs, he was circling, ****** as hell, with blood coming
from the top of his head. The vets decided that never mind the blood,
the dog was healthy. I decided unilaterally to wash down everything
with a hose from outside the run, dog and all.
The owner wasn't bothered by the scar at all. The dog was orgiinally
used as a hunter, going down holes after moderately sized vermin. The
scar just joined the others already over his head and shoulders. So
some dachshunds CAN take on the odd badger or two, German variety...
Last dog I ever turned my back on, too.
Curtis L. Russell
And then there was the little dog that was an escape artist. Climbed
over the fence into the mastiff's run and we never found hide nor hair
of him again...